ArticleBMC psychology2025
The impact of self-efficacy on psychological resilience in EFL learners: a serial mediation model.
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- The impact of supervisor support on academic adaptation of medical research postgraduates: a serial mediation model of research self-efficacy and psychological resilience.Medical education online · 2026Article
- Self-efficacy, personal autonomy, life arrangements, and health priorities/preferences in psychological distress: a predictive, variance-based PLS-SEM structural model.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- From interest to engagement: a serial mediation model of self-efficacy and academic buoyancy.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- The impact of shyness on social anxiety among college students: Mediating role of regulatory emotional self-efficacy and resilience.PloS one · 2026Article
- Perceived social support and psychological wellbeing among vocational college students: the serial mediating roles of school belonging, academic self-efficacy, and psychological resilience.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Influence of training stress on psychological well-being in female college athletes: chain mediating roles of general self-efficacy and psychological resilience.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- The relationship between physical activity and mental health among university students: a chain mediation effect of self-efficacy and emotion regulation.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
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backgroundEFL learners often experience anxiety and emotional stress, which can hinder their academic persistence and well-being. Although previous studies have examined self-efficacy, language anxiety, and emotion regulation separately, their combined effect on psychological resilience remains underexplored. Guided by self-efficacy theory, which emphasizes the importance of individuals' belief in their ability to cope with challenges, and emotion regulation theory, which focuses on how emotional management facilitates psychological adaptation, this study proposes a serial mediation model in which self-efficacy enhances resilience by reducing language anxiety and improving emotion regulation.
methodThis study used the self-efficacy scale, language anxiety scale, emotion regulation scale, and psychological resilience scale to collect 540 valid responses. Data were analyzed and processed with SPSS 26.0 software to examine the direct effect of self-efficacy on EFL learners' psychological resilience, along with the mediating functions of language anxiety and emotion regulation.
resultsSelf-efficacy was significantly associated with psychological resilience (β = 0.096, p < 0.001). Language anxiety mediated the relationship between self-efficacy and resilience (β = 0.122, 95% CI: [0.070, 0.185]). Emotion regulation also mediated this relationship (β = 0.067, 95% CI: [0.033, 0.106]). Both language anxiety and emotion regulation together had a serial mediating effect (β = 0.065, 95% CI: [0.038, 0.099]).
conclusionThis study found that self-efficacy was positively associated with psychological resilience among EFL learners, with language anxiety and emotion regulation acting as sequential mediators. The findings offer theoretical support for understanding their psychological adaptation.
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